Description: I.G. Farben revisited: Industry and ideology ten years later.- I: Research and technological innovation.- The academic-industrial symbiosis in German chemical research, 1905-1939.- Scientist and industrial manager: Emil Fischer and Carl Duisberg.- Losing the war but gaining ground: The German chemical industry during World War I.- The relationship of I.G. Farben's Agfa Filmfabrik Wolfen to its Jewish scientists and scientists married to Jews, 1933-1939.- Germany's synthetic fuel industry, 1930-1945.- II: International connections and comparative perspectives.- Business strategies and research organization in the German chemical industry and its role as exemplar for other industries in Germany and Britain.- Dominance through cooperation: I.G. Farben's Japan strategy.- German chemical firms in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period.- German chemicals and American politics, 1919-1922.- III The industry since 1945.- The Richard Willsttter controversy: The legacy of anti-Semitism in the West German chemical industry.- Capacity losses, reconstruction, and unfinished modernization: The chemical industry in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ)/GDR, 1945-1965.- The dynamics of industry structure: The chemical industry in the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan in the 1980s.- Gravity and the Rainbow-makers: Some thoughts on the trajectory of the German chemical industry in the twentieth century.

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